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Golems PRE-ORDER

2024-07-02T10:17:05-04:00

Vendor: ThunderGryph Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 16.95

Designer	Francesco Testini
Publisher	ThunderGryph Games
Players	1-2
Playtime	20-20 mins
Suggested Age	14 and up
Additional Info	303734/golems http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/303734/golems/forums/63

ETA 2024

In Golems, you will need to collect resources and summon Golems to score victory points while trying not to be anticipated by your opponent.

You will take alternating turns. During each turn you collect cards from the grid by using your Gems and choosing how to use the collected cards to maximize your strategy.
There are 3 types of cards: Golem cards, Gem cards, Rune cards.

To pick a card from a row that contains 3 cards, place a Gem from your reserve on each of the 2 undesired cards and then take the card.
To pick a card from a row that contains 2 cards, move the Gem from the desired card to the undesired card.
To pick the last card of a row, collect the Gems and then take the card. Immediately refill the row with 3 new cards from the deck.

During your turn:
- You may use a Golem card as a resource by placing the card upside down in front of you.
- You may summon a Golem if you have all the resources needed to do this, by placing the card face-up next to your resource cards and by discarding 1 to 3 cards with the matching resources of the Golem you want to summon. Tuck the cards under the summoned Golem. These resources cannot be used anymore, but each card will score 1 point at the end of the game.

- You may use a Rune card as a resource.
- You may take a Rune card in hand and use it to score additional points, but only if you have at least 3 Gems in your reserve and pay 1 Gem to the supply.

- You may take a Gem card in hand to gain the bonus shown on the card.
- You may take a Gem card to gain set-collection points by placing the card face-down next to your Rune cards and creating Gem dust.

The game ends when you are not able to refill a row with new cards.
Score 2 points for every summoned Golem, 1 point for every card under your summoned Golems, additional victory points for your collected Gem dust symbols, and additional points depending on your Rune cards in hand.
Whoever has the most points, wins. In the case of a tie, whoever collected the most points for their summoned Golems wins.

15 Days PRE-ORDER

2024-07-02T10:17:04-04:00

Vendor: ThunderGryph Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 16.95

Designer	Francesco Testini
Publisher	ThunderGryph Games
Players	1-4
Playtime	20-20 mins
Suggested Age	14 and up
Additional Info	298619/15-days http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/298619/15-days/forums/63

ETA 2024

In 15 days, you will take alternating turns until a player completes all 4 Season sets, or when 1 of the 2 season stacks is empty.

On each turn players choose 2 out of 4 possible actions:

Take 2 Season cards from any of the two season stacks to your hand. You may choose a different season stack for each card you draw.

Take 1 face-up card from either the market by drafting the topmost card of one of the 3 Market columns or the topmost card from the discard pile.

Place cards in one of the four corners of your player card considering each corner can only contain a single season composed of one card of each number.
Placing cards can be done by discarding other cards from your hand.

Finally, you can discard 2 cards from your hand, that are identical to any of the season cards already played in front of you, to take a wild card.
Immediately place the wild card in a position of your choice where a number is missing.
The wild card replaces the missing number.

By having the majority of Season cards of 1 type, take the corresponding wooden animal. Wooden animals give different small advantages, like increasing your hand limit or getting a discount when placing cards.

At the end of the game score: 1 point per card, counting only the longest uninterrupted sequence of numbers in each season. 2 points for every Wooden animal you own, and -2 points for every empty corner on the player card.

-description from publisher
The player with the most points will win the game.

Sushi Boat

2023-09-05T09:42:23-04:00

Vendor: Japanime Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 62.95

Designer	Dario Massarenti Francesco Testini
Publisher	Japanime Games
Players	2-5
Playtime	30-75 mins
Suggested Age	8 and up
Additional Info	346255/sushi-boat http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/346255/sushi-boat/forums/63

Welcome to Sushi Boat! We are proud to offer you the finest delicacies, hand-crafted by our master sushi chef. Are you new to conveyor belt sushi? You’ll love it! Our chef creates masterpieces and places them on the belt, which brings the sushi right to you.

Just grab whatever looks good as it passes you by and enjoy! Our staff is also on hand to help you if you need it. So take a seat—it’s all you can eat!

Each turn, players perform their choice of actions, including taking plates of sushi off the revolving 'belt' on the board, paying staff tiles for effects, buying side dishes and more.

As you eat, you’ll stack your Plates in front of you. You score points by eating off matching Plates, and for eating a wide variety of sushi types. And you’ll need to pay attention all the time, because you never know when someone will start a Wasabi Challenge!

When the side dish deck runs out, the game ends and players calculate their victory points - highest score wins!

Viticulture World: First Game Continent Promo Pack

2023-06-17T12:31:14-04:00

Vendor: Stonemaier Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 1.95

Designer	Mihir Shah Francesco Testini
Publisher	Stonemaier Games
Players	1-6
Playtime	75-95 mins
Suggested Age	14 and up
Expansion For	Viticulture Essential Edition Viticulture World: Cooperative Expansion
Additional Info	364100/viticulture-world-first-game-continent-promo-pack http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/364100/viticulture-world-first-game-continent-promo-pack/forums/63

Ease into the cooperative challenge of the Viticulture World expansion with this first-game promo pack. This is completely optional and only available from Stonemaier Games.

Contains 9 cards.

Legend Raiders (Import)

2022-12-09T00:18:51-05:00

Vendor: Post Scriptum
Type: Board Games
Price: 59.95

Designer	Dario Massarenti Francesco Testini
Publisher	Post Scriptum
Players	2-4
Playtime	30-45 mins
Suggested Age	6 and up
Additional Info	265118/legend-raiders http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/265118/legend-raiders/forums/63

Hail to you, intrepid explorer! You've been selected to take part to the biggest event in the world. The best among explorers, archeologist, and adventurers will compete to decide who's the most excellent. The veil of mystery continues to surround many treasures and legendary places: Will you be able to dig them up and prove that you are the best? —"Legend Raiders Inc. - Scouting Bureau"

In Legend Raiders, each player represents an adventurer who wants to collect as many ancient coins (a.k.a., victory points or VPs) as possible, searching for legendary treasures and mythical places. In every round on the main board are four different missions, each composed of a discovery to be performed and two random tools (ropes, shovels, compasses and maps) supplied by the bureau. The explorer who gains the most points wins.

On their turn, a player chooses between two actions:

Take a discovery and place it on the personal board together with the two randomly related tools, or
Perform one or more discoveries with the tools already on the personal board.

To be discovered, each treasure requires a specific combination of tools. Places require more tools than artifacts, but will give more VPs in the following expeditions. When a player uses their favorite tool, they gain more VPs; the torch can be used as a joker by turning it off, but only if it's on!

Discovering new treasures gives the player VPs based on number of ancient coins visible on the personal board, uncovered by the ongoing missions. Solving one mission at a time allows the player to have more visible ancient coins and thus to score more VPs, but having more missions on the board and solving more of them in a single turn gives the player a benefit in terms of time. Each time one or more legendary treasures are discovered, the player also gains a expedition card from the four available at the bureau; expedition cards show goals that grant VPs at the end of the game if achieved.

At the beginning of each round, the player rolls the adventure die and gains the resulting benefit — or causes the torches of all players to be flipped over!

The game ends when the first player has dug up six or more ancient treasures. Which strategy will you choose to apply? Will you succeed being the best explorer in the world? How many and which mythical treasures will you uncover?

—description from the publisher

Viticulture World: Cooperative Expansion

2022-07-04T07:15:28-04:00

Vendor: Stonemaier Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 40.95

Designer	Mihir Shah Francesco Testini
Publisher	Stonemaier Games
Players	1-6
Playtime	60-120 mins
Suggested Age	13 and up
Expansion For	Viticulture Essential Edition
Expansion	Viticulture World: First Game Continent Promo Pack
Additional Info	360226/viticulture-world-cooperative-expansion http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/360226/viticulture-world-cooperative-expansion/forums/63

Cooperate with members of your extended winemaking family in various asymmetric regions around the world in Viticulture World: Cooperative Expansion as you try to achieve global recognition. Balance the management of your individual vineyard with the combined effort of your fellow players to gain influence within the region.

Using the new game board, tiles, tokens, and event cards combined with the original vineyard mats and game cards, you have six years to achieve the two conditions necessary for victory in the selected region: (1) Each player must reach 25 victory points and (2) the shared influence token must reach the end of the influence track. The cooperation, objectives, and asymmetry in this expansion are similar to that of Spirit Island and Orleans: Invasion.

The Viticulture core game is required to play the Viticulture World expansion. Other expansions are compatible with this expansion.

Momiji

2021-12-27T09:11:28-05:00

Vendor: Deer Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 25.95

Designer	Dario Massarenti Francesco Testini
Publisher	Deer Games
Players	1-4
Playtime	30 mins
Suggested Age	8 and up
Additional Info	322282/momiji http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/322282/momiji/forums/63

In Momiji, you attempt to fulfill objectives by collecting the most valuable autumn leaves from the Imperial Garden in ancient Japan.

You start with a hand of six leaf cards and a series of three landscape powers that combine to form a unique panorama. (For the first game, landscapes are assigned, but they can be drafted in subsequent games.) Leaf cards come in 4-6 types depending on the number of players, with values of 0-3 in each type. Start with four random cards in the central playing area, sorted by type. Place 4-6 randomly chosen objective tokens in the center of play; sample objectives are collecting the most 0s, having the most cards of a specific type, or having the highest sum of visible cards at game's end.

On your turn, choose one of these three options:

Collect leaf cards: Take all the leaves of one type from the central display and add them to your hand; if you wish, pay one acorn token to reveal four new leaf cards prior to choosing a type.
Play leaf cards: Place 1-2 leaf cards of the same type or two or more cards of different types in your player area. Each type is placed in its own pile, with 0 being the first card you can play of a type; each subsequent card must the same number or at most one larger. Once you play a 3 on a pile, cover that pile with a torii token as that pile is now closed for you. If you play different types, then after playing, each pair of adjacent topmost cards in your area; if both cards show an acorn on the adjacent corners, you take two acorn tokens from the reserve.
Activate a objective token: Pay three acorn tokens to place an objective token in your player area. This activates the objective, and anyone might score for it at game's end.

Once during a turn, you can discard two cards from your hand for one acorn token or spend an acorn to use a landscape power or do both of these actions. You can use each landscape power at most once during a game.

When the leaf card deck is empty or after 4-6 leaf piles are closed with a torii token, the game ends. For each pile of leaves, you score points equal to the value of the topmost card multiplied by the number of cards in the pile. Remaining acorn tokens are worth 1 point each. For each activated objective, you see who best meets the condition and therefore scores points; if the player holding the token scores, they receive 10 points, whereas anyone else who scores that objective receives 3 points. Each player scores in case of a tie. The player with the most victory points at the end of the game wins.

Murano: Light Masters (Matagot)

2021-11-01T18:36:55-04:00

Vendor: Matagot
Type: Board Games
Price: 51.95

Designer	Carlo Camarotto Francesco Testini
Publisher	Matagot
Players	2-4
Playtime	30-40 mins
Suggested Age	8 and up
Additional Info	341256/murano-light-masters http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/341256/murano-light-masters/forums/63

At the begining of the 13th Century, all the glassmakers in Venice were forced to move to Murano. The island became famous, and Murano was the largest producer of glass in Europe. Embody a glassmaker and collect colored glass to make the most beautiful items while staying ahead of your competitors! Welcome to the Glassmakers Island!

- Selector & Ring gameplay is original and accessible
- Real glass pieces bring sound and beauty to the table
- Compete with others and yourself to become Grandmaster

Tang Garden

2020-04-22T22:29:13-04:00

Vendor: ThunderGryph Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 59.95

Designers	Francesco Testini Pierluca Zizzi
Publisher	ThunderGryph Games
Players	1-4
Playing Time	40-60 mins
Suggested Age	14 and up
Accessories	The Dicetroyers - Tang Garden (Base Game Or With Ghost Stories; Golden Age Exp) (Italy Imported)
Additional Info	252153/tang-garden http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/252153/tang-garden/forums/63

The Tang dynasty was considered the first golden age of the classical and now iconic Chinese gardens. Emperor Xuanzong built the magnificent imperial Garden of the Majestic Clear Lake as an homage of life itself and from where he ruled. Players will act as Imperial Garden Designers and they will be called to build the most incredible garden while balancing the elements of Nature.

Tang Garden is a Zen-like game that will take you to the first golden age of China, where players will progressively build a garden by creating the landscape, placing the scenery and projecting their vision through vertical panoramas. During the construction, noblemen will visit the garden to admire the surroundings and the way the natural elements coexist in the most breathtaking scenery humankind has ever laid their eyes upon.

Players will take turns by playing one of the two actions available in the game:

1) Placing tiles and matching the elements to increase their personal nature balance and unlock more character miniatures.

By balancing the nature elements on the player boards, players will attract new characters into the garden. On each player turn, if the elements are balanced, the player will have to choose one miniature from the ones available and finally decide which one of the characters will be placed in the garden, orienting them towards their favorite background, while keeping the other with you to keep exploiting its ability.

2) Draw decoration cards and place one on the board to get prestige by completing collections.

Players will draw a quantity of cards based on the board situation and choose one to keep. Players will then have to place the chosen decoration in one of the available spots in the garden, creating a unique and seamless scenario that will never be the same.

During the game, by placing tiles on special parts of the board, you will be able to place a panorama tile, a new element that adds a never ending perspective for the visitors. Both small and big panoramas will be placed perpendicularly to the board by attaching it to the board insert by creating a seamless look on the four sides of the board. The Panoramas will interact with the characters at the end of the game by giving prestige points based on what your visitor sees and likes.

At the end of the game, the player with the most prestige will be the winner.

—description from the publisher

Xi'an

2018-02-27T18:22:43-05:00

Vendor: Surfin' Meeple China
Type: Board Games
Price: 64.99

Designer	Marco Legato Francesco Testini
Publisher	Surfin' Meeple China
Players	2-4
Playtime	30-60 mins
Suggested Age	14 and up
Additional Info	234828/xi http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/234828/xi/forums/63

246 BCE: The future first emperor of China, Ying Zheng, orders the construction of the Terracotta Army. It will be part of the "Great Mausoleum", a monument built to celebrate the Qin dynasty's endless glory and also to protect him in the afterlife. As a delegate of the Emperor, you will be asked to fulfill his wish by leading a team of workers and helpers to obtain resources, craft and decorate the warrior statues, and supply them with fine wood and bronze weapons.

Xi'an is played over six turns, with two rounds in each turn. This means that each player will play exactly twelve times during the game. During each turn, players draw the first four cards from their personal workers deck, then play two rounds in the turn. First, each player choses two cards and sets aside the remaining two cards face down. The second round will use the remaining two cards. After six turns, the player who has gained the most prestige points wins.

—description from the publisher